Hoop Definition
- To undergo a rigorous trial or examination.
- to do many things in order to achieve some objective, esp. things regarded as needlessly bothersome or inconvenient
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Origin of Hoop
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From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land", in combination, also "circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Dutch hoep), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic [script?] (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.
From Wiktionary
Middle English hop
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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